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The Eric Carle Museum
of Picture Book Art
  • 125 West Bay Road
  • Amherst, MA 01002

Hours

  • Tue- Friday10 am - 4 pm
  • Saturday 10am – 5pm
  • Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm

 

Visit the carle

  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 50 is Open. More
  • Our Voice: The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards exhibition More
  • Central Gallery Features A Marriage of Artistry: Leo and Diane Dillon More

News

  • On view now until January 27 | Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards Christopher Myers, Illustration for <i>Harlem</i> by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press). Courtesy of NCCIL. © 1997 Christopher Myers. Expand
    On view now until January 27 | Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards
  • On view now until March 24 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 50 Eric Carle, Illustration for <i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> (Philomel Books). Collection of Eric and Barbara Carle. © 1969, 1987 Eric Carle. Expand
    On view now until March 24 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 50
  • On view now until November 25 | A Marriage of Artistry: Leo and Diane Dillon Leo and Diane Dillon, Illustration for <i>Jazz on a Saturday Night,</i> (The Blue Sky Press). Collection of Diane Dillon. © 2007 Leo and Diane Dillon. Expand
    On view now until November 25 | A Marriage of Artistry: Leo and Diane Dillon
  • Opening December 8 | Illustrated Owls: A Who&#039;s Hoo from the Museum&#039;s Vault E. H. Shepard, Illustration for <i>The Pooh Story Book</i> by A. A. Milne (E. P. Dutton & Company). Courtesy of Dutton Children’s Books and Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. © 1965 E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. All rights reserved. Expand
    Opening December 8 | Illustrated Owls: A Who's Hoo from the Museum's Vault
  • Opening February 10, 2019 | Out of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age Hope Larson, Illustration for <i>A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel</i>. © 2012 Hope Larson. Reprinted with permission from First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership. All rights reserved. Expand
    Opening February 10, 2019 | Out of the Box: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age
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The Carle will close Friday, 11/16 at 3 pm for a private event.

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November 17
Special Storytime: Randall de Sève and Pamela Zagarenski more
November 18
Picture Book Theatre presents The Littlest Matryoshka, by Corinne Demas and illustrator Kathryn Brown more
November 23
The Carle Bookshop Holiday Sale more
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STUDY TOUR

Study Tour in Pistoia, Italy

3/10 -3/15, 2019

 

 


 
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